]]>By: Another Halocene Humanhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3969683
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:18:02 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3969683@The Moar You Know: That’s why Akin and Mourdock lost, you know. They were advocating for the possibility that a white woman might be forced to have a black baby.

Dude, I thought legitimate rape was understood to mean a blackity black man jumping out from the bushes and raping an innocent white woman.

Not “date rape” which is when a harlot falsely screams “rape!” at a red-blooded white boy when she’s about to be found out.

]]>By: Another Halocene Humanhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3969567
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:40:04 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3969567@jeremy: The fact is that the southern strategy is losing it’s luster because the GOP base is decreasing in population.

Honestly, that’s what they fought the Civil War over–fear of becoming the electoral minority and being overruled. Well, it’s finally happening.

]]>By: Another Halocene Humanhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3969522
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:23:21 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3969522@Chris: I’d be willing to pay for the construction of an entire Biocity if they’d all promise to move there.

Good move, when it all collapses they’ll be 21st century Okies creating a new Orange County. DO NOT WANT.

For those who didn’t have a KZ right in the neighborhood, there were mandatory viewings of footage taken in the camps. The Allies were very insistent that the German people own what their government had done to its own citizens, as well as “guest workers”, Russian POWs, Jews, and Romani.

School classes here in Germany still visit concentration camp memorials; all German schoolchildren are required to do that.

As far as the Beauregard flag goes, it was used exclusively by the CS Army, and the accommodation both sides reached after the war was not to disrespect the men who had fought on either side. But the Stars and Bars, as a purely political emblem, you would think would be the one to be demonized.

If that were the flag that the Klan and the rest of the shitkickers were flying, then it would be. The political flag however has met a far more apropos fate with the vast majority of people: it’s been forgotten.

It’s worth pointing that the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia was never the political flag of the confederacy, and hence its display as a “heritage” flag by numerous southern states makes no sense historically—unless you recognise its actual purpose, that of sending a signal as the most widely known and understood symbol of white supremacy. If they’d actually chosen to display the Stars and Bars, the racist intent would be slightly less blatant.

I just wonder why that is, though. The Stars and Bars, to me, is the symbol of the political maggots who led the secessionist movement—and the red-white-red ribbon had been a secessionist cockade for years before the war.

As far as the Beauregard flag goes, it was used exclusively by the CS Army, and the accommodation both sides reached after the war was not to disrespect the men who had fought on either side. But the Stars and Bars, as a purely political emblem, you would think would be the one to be demonized.

Never even thought of the abortion/rape debate that way. Oy. You’re probably right though. Well, if it’s another weapon against the anti-choice lobby, you take the weapons you can, but still, damn.

]]>By: Mike Ghttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3968719
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:18:09 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3968719Texas also relies heavily on hosting corporate headquarters for US-wide operations. If the Redneck State was suddenly no longer part of the US, many of them would pack up and move a la Montreal during the Quebec separatist era of the 70s.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:08:06 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3968686@Dennis G.: Appreciated. Also appreciated how gracious blunt can be, don’t see enough of that in the world.
]]>By: Klaus Kinkyhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3968673
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:38 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3968673@Ohio Mom: Ever see, “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story”? Ed Rollins, the guy Atwater pushed out as Reagan’s chief of staff (if memory serves), said that the shrink-wrap was still on the Bible Atwater was given when he died. He didn’t relate this in a spiteful way, but in a kind of, “Ah, shucks” manner, implying that Lee was still selling bullshit up until the moment of his death.
]]>By: The Moar You Knowhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3968663
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:02:58 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3968663

(Always wondered how many of these guys would flinch on their “pro-life” views if the life in question was one that their daughter had with anyone other than a white guy).

@Chris: Never wondered about this at all, not one second. The correct answer is “all of them”.

Their little darling would be flown or driven to the nearest clinic and have the unacceptably dark fetus hacked out by any means necessary.

If the parents didn’t just straight-up kill her. That used to happen too.

That’s why Akin and Mourdock lost, you know. They were advocating for the possibility that a white woman might be forced to have a black baby. You’ll never get the white supremacy crowd on board that platform.

This of course is why the GOP has always left the “in case of rape” clause in their abortion restrictions.

]]>By: GxBhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/13/hear-lee-explain-the-core-conservative-world-view/#comment-3968645
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:58:03 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=119869#comment-3968645@Paula: I’d like a trial separation. It would be great if the bean-counters could crunch the numbers and put the plain reality in front of their smug ignorant faces. It’d be a perfect plan except for their obliviousness to math, logic and reality. Still I say we do a citizen swap and let them go with our blessings.
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